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Sheesh. People have lives. Such an absurdly high standard we place on open source maintainers.
by Carrok 2y ago
Sheesh. People have lives. Such an absurdly high standard we place on open source maintainers.
- _xiaz 2y agoIn the alpha stage Also, how hard can it be to touch up on docs or some other small parts at least once a week? If you don't have the time for that maybe don't start a new project?
- Carrok 2y agoMaybe they’re moving. Maybe they’re on vacation. Maybe they’re getting married or divorced. Maybe a family member just died. You want weekly doc updates? It’s open source my friend, make a PR or shut the hell up. Thanks for making my point for me. This is an absurd standard. “Don’t start a project uness you can commit to weekly updates for perpetuity.”
- aniviacat 2y agoNo need to be rude. If someone creates a website for a project they are obviously trying to present it to potential users. That is at odds with not working on making the project actually usable. But as a different comment suggested, the project does still seem to be worked on, so I remain hopeful we might one day see a user friendly NixOS derivative mature.
- Carrok 2y agoI was joking. However, as an open source maintainer myself I have had many people actually be rude to me for not doing X fast or often enough. No one owes you anything. Even if they committed the sin of making a website for the project.
- _xiaz 2y agoI maintain at least one reasonably large open source project myself and pride myself on our turnaround time. Our users/contributors don't need to wait weeks, months or even years until their issue is categorized, addressed and resolved. Of course part of this is staffing and domain dependent, but I do believe that marginal updates to a project (< once per week) is worse than quitting
- Carrok 2y agoGood for you. I have a life, and will never hold myself to such a standard. It's a side project I decided to give away for free. People can wait as long as it takes.